My Debian Odyssey Begins...

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> 3) Dselect is weird.  This is just a personal thing; I know some people
> love dselect, but I'm having issues with it.  For example, even if I tell
> it to just grab one package, it ends up wanting to grap 35mb worth of
> shit.  What I'm doing right now is just using dselect to find packages,
> then getting them with apt-get.


I stopped using dselect a long time ago.  My typical
apt usage consist of things like:

apt-get update
apt-cache search apache
apt-get install apache

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade


apropos apt and man them.


For Helix GNOME, you simply add one line to your
/etc/apt/sources.list, apt-get update, and atp-get install
three "pseudo" packages (one is for the main stuff,
one is for the dev stuff, and I forget what the other
is for).  These pseudo packages depend on the real
Helix GNOME packages, so apt auto-installs the
dependent packages.


HTH,

D

PS: Recently, I had to do some "rpm" stuff on a Mandrake
    box.  Wow.  apt really has spoiled me.  "bar.rpm depends
    on foo.rpm"  Just friggin' install foo.rpm for me then!!!


* On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 03:09:51PM +0000, Nathan Saper wrote:
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> OK, so I finally got my laptop back from the repair shop yesterday, and,
> too my obvious horror, my Linux partitions had been deleted, and I just
> had one big fat Win95 install.  Vowing to make the best of the situation,
> I decided to try Debian, instead of just reinstalling Redhat.  I made the
> 17 install disks for 2.2, booted up, and started downloading.  The install
> was a breeze.  Apt-get is amazing.  But I do have a few problems with
> Debian:
> 
> 1) The default install has some obvious things missing.  (I did the
> default install cus I was feeling lazy.)  For one, it's missing important
> devel libraries, such as the ncurses static libraries.  This seems like
> something that should be included in the base install.  That's just one
> example; there are others.
> 
> 2) Doesn't configure X during install.  This doesn't bother me,
> but I can see where a new user would be pretty freaked just looking at a
> command prompt.
> 
> 3) Dselect is weird.  This is just a personal thing; I know some people
> love dselect, but I'm having issues with it.  For example, even if I tell
> it to just grab one package, it ends up wanting to grap 35mb worth of
> shit.  What I'm doing right now is just using dselect to find packages,
> then getting them with apt-get.
> 
> Just my first impression.  Debian certainly seems to be a cleaner system,
> but Redhat's definitely easier to set up.
> 
> - --
> 
> Nathan Saper
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